[benfrain]

Where are the default theme files stored? I’m using a Thematic based wordpress theme and bbPress tells me ‘Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.’

Having installed bbPress 2.01 I am trying to edit the layout to make it full width. It seems this must be handled by editing the PHP files. However – the docs suggest the default theme Kakumei is the default – where are the files for this template?

I see only a bbp-twentyten folder in my FTP?

I’d like to simply comment out <?php get_sidebar(); ?> on the relevant files.

I’ve tried making changes in these files but nothing changes frontend.

[raphaelsuzuki]

It is made to be simple, and if you count how well it integrates into WordPress and can use it’s native features, then you have a pretty complete package.

So if you still likes Discuz! better, no problem, I personally think Vanilla is miles ahead of bbPress, but still choose it for simple boards, when the board isn’t the primary feature of the site.

[FrosyD]

I want to install bbPress into WordPress which is installed on a subdomain of my main WordPress site.

Can I get bbPress on the subdomain installation to integrate with the main WordPress install?

This is probably easier than trying to fix bbPress and Thesis.

So I want (bbPress) forum.domain.com to call in users from (wordpress) domain.com?

Hope that make sense.

[chrisella]

mmm today I managed (successfully I believe) to use this script (with some edits) : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-313

to convert my phpBB3 to bbPress v1.0, and then I used bbConverter to convert the bbPress v1.0 to v2.1

and all seems to have copied fine

one Issue I’m having is the passwords.

When I try and login with a user and the correct old password it continously fails .

It seems (after going through the code a bit and the database) that it’s looking for _bbc_class in the user meta table in this code but that isn’t there in my table atall.

/**

* Convert passwords from previous forum to wordpress.

*/

public function convert_pass()

{

global $wpdb;

$username = $_POST;

if( $username != ” )

{

$row = $wpdb->get_row( ‘SELECT * FROM ‘ . $wpdb->users .

‘ INNER JOIN ‘ . $wpdb->usermeta . ‘ ON user_id = ID ‘ .

‘ WHERE meta_key = “_bbc_class” AND user_login = “‘ . $username . ‘” LIMIT 1’ );

if( $row )

{

$converter = newBBConverter( $row->meta_value );

$converter->translate_pass( $username, $_POST );

}

}

}

Any ideas ?

I know this is quite vague so I can give any more details if needed.

Cheers

[raphaelsuzuki]

Hello, again.

Every slug related to bbPress gives me page not found:

http://www.nelioguazzelli.com.br/rede-de-negocios/

I’ve heard that changing permalinks can mess with bbPress slugs, needing to hit save button in it settings to it start displaying form listings again. Maybe it’s the case, but that’s not working too.

I’ve also heard that maybe my WordPress setup is not aware of bbPress existence (this is more common in version 1.0) and need some extra work, but in this case I don’t have a clue.

[Martin]

Hi,

I’ve just embarked on moving my Drupal based site, blog and forum over to WordPress.

So far so good until I get to what forum software I need to use.

To use any forum software inside WP, I need to move WP posts into the forum software as a forum topic.

Can bbPress do this for me or am I wasting my time? Any suggestions would be great.

[David Decker]

@bollocks187

I don’t agree here. SimplePress has do many features for a lot of users/use cases. Yes, it works, it’s active developed and maintained. I tested the new 5.0 beta two weeks ago and it’s still feature overload and a totally different user interface different from “normal” WP… And regarding translation they don’t go with WP standards here and so until they fix some things I could not get it into German. Old 4.x branch is no option because I need optimized code for a new project and also future-proof with WP 3.3+

bbPress — I only mean the plugin version 2.x — on the other hand is really simple but has all I need. It works with almost any theme/framework and I could easily tweak it via CSS. This is a big advantage. Performance-wise it’s really leightweight and future-proof with WP because of custom post types for forum contents.

YES, I know it has not so many features – a few could be added via plugin add-ons – and I assume a lot more will come in the next weeks or month.

IMHO bbPress 2.x is best for small to middle-range communities, best for simple support forums and such. If I need a full packed forum solution with ALL the many and big features I almost always will use a third-party solution like Vanilla, IPB or new XenForo. These have clean style and great UI in frontend AND backend. And with some work of integrating could be work together with WordPress too. — Just look at the newly launched support forum by iThemes.com – they use IPB Forums and it’s great for such a big community.

However, there are some great new bbPress forums out there, see at devpress.com, wpcandy.com, support.pippinsplugins.com, getshopped.com etc. So the bbPress plugin has already proven to manage such communities and they’re doing great.

I vote for bbPress and at the same time have much respect for the work of the Simple:Press devs but just would not use their system!

-Dave

[David Decker]

This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the bbPress 2.x Forum Plugin to the WordPress Admin Bar.

Info & Download here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin-bar-addition/

Description from Readme:

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot bbPress 2.x related resources to your admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for forum administrators/ moderators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Topics’ or ‘Main Settings’ page etc.

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards forum admins/ webmasters and moderators. The new admin bar entries will only be displayed if the current user has the bbPress/ WordPress cabability of moderate. (Note: I am open for suggestions here if this should maybe changed to a more suitable cabability.)

Plugin/ Theme Support:

At this time the plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress 2.x specific add-on plugins!

Special Features:

Not only supporting official bbPress 2.x sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole bbPress 2.x ecosystem

Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

Link to official German bbPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization:

English (default) – always included

German – always included

.pot file (bbpaba.pot) for translators is also always included

Have fun with this little add-on!

I am open for feedback of course!

-Dave

[dino_rox]

So, I need an integration between WordPress and bbpress posts.

E.g.: I post a new post (!) in my blog and automatically it creates a topic in my bbpress forum. They share the same comments.

Is it possible (of course, but you know)? Somebody knows some plugin that do it?

Sorry my english…

[ebiznet88]

I am glad to read this.

I too have been looking to replace my phpbb board and integrate my existing forum with WordPress.

I’m concerned with the slow speed of responses and development on bbpress.

I know the developers are all doing this voluntarily and in their spare time. There are no guarantees in life and so even though people and companies may say they are committed to something, it doesn’t mean its forever as things change so rapidly in this world. We just have to move forward in faith and hope that things improve.

[Anderson Mak]

I dont know, I adde adsense in my forum directly editing the pages of the theme, see at: http://ajuda.blogwordpress.ws/

[Anderson Mak]

If you want it, you can see the default layout of bbPress at my own forum: http://ajuda.blogwordpress.ws

[Anderson Mak]

Hi, I started using bbPress there are 2 days, see my forum at: http://ajuda.blogwordpress.ws

My forum is about WordPress and bbPress

[hmTodd]

Hate to answer my own question, but in case anyone wants to try this here is some sample code to start with –

<html>

<body>

This is it.

<?php

// include WordPress

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

require('./blog/wp-load.php');



// Handle INSERT if data is Posted

if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] && !empty( $_POST['action'] ) &&  $_POST['action'] == "bbp-new-topic") {

$new_topic = array(

'post_parent'    => $_POST['bbp_forum_id'], // forum ID

'post_content'   => $_POST['bbp_topic_content'],

'post_title'     => $_POST['bbp_topic_title']

);

$topic_meta = array(

'forum_id'           => $new_topic['post_parent']

);



$topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_topic, $topic_meta);

echo('<br>Topic ID = '.$topic_id . '<br>');

} // end INSERT



// Use Shortcode to show New Topic Form.

// Could also create your own form.

echo do_shortcode('[bbp-topic-form]');

?>

Thats it.

</body></html>

[spiritfly]

yeah, every research about example bbpress forums ends up with some examples that were posted 3-4 years ago and when you try to open them you end up on either a parked domain or just another dead 404 page. It seems like those pages that had bbpress were somehow doomed and failed miserably.

Even the official demo examples at https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ are no where to be found. Technorati doesn’t seem to have a forum anymore and the support forum is only accessible for VIP wordpress members.

It seems like the only working examples of bbpress are the wordpress forum and the bbpress forum. This doesn’t really leave any good impression. I’m getting second thoughts about installing bbPress.

[andeeh]

Hi guys,

First of all thanks for your continued efforts to build bbPress. I’ve followed the HowTo video and that got me up and running with the templates reasonably quickly. I created my own child theme of 2010 and re-skinned it. All seems to have worked well.

My only remaining issue so far as I can see is that there is no way for the user to know that they have registered. The email gets sent out but there really needs to be something like “Thanks for registering, you’ve been sent an email.”

On my system when you register the registration form doesn’t change so it looks like nothing happened.

Inspecting the POST submission with fiddler I can see that there’s a “redirect-to” field. I suppose that’s what I need to change to redirect and give the message, but what message should I display?… considering that the mail server could be down or something, I wonder if there’s a status code or whatever? What do you normally do?

thanks,

AndyH

PS: After trawling the forums for tips I found these plugins helpful and complimentary to a bbPress install…

Members (for fine grain permissions)

SB Welcome Email Editor (to edit the registration emails, works well)

WP-reCAPTCHA (captcha at registration)

Private Messages for WordPress (for a basic pm system)

[0xDE1E7E]

Provided you are talking about the integrated multisite solution and bbpress 2 (not the standalone versions): yes, that should work. In multisite mode, you always have one main site which holds all the users. All sites in the network work with this network-wide userbase, so a bbpress installation on any network site will also do so.

[lyradmil]

This is the current situation: I currently have running several wordpress/buddypress sites across individual independent servers and am still in the planning phase of hooking them all up using the wordpress multisite strategy. One parent site -> multiple children sites. The immediate issue lies in having a sole and central forum space for this network of sites, provided by the parent site. I need all members of the children sites to automatically be members of the parent site in order to participate in the sole and central forum. One way to automatically add members has been provided.

I also need to be able to create:

Individual forum themes – Depending on where you are accessing the forum from, the displayed forum should adopt the theme from the child or parent site, e.g. when a member accesses the forum through a link found on child_site_A, the displayed forum should be skinned with child_site_A’s theme, and if the forum is accessed on child_site_B, it should be skinned with child_site_B’s theme. One way I can see this being done is to use php include and adopt the specific style sheets accordingly from the child’s site.

I’m certain I am not the only person experiencing an issue like this, since it seems like a potentially common problem but I have not found any such solutions around. Any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[spiritfly]

Hello to all

I have multiple WP blogs on different domains. I would like to unite all of them in one WP MU installation. I know it’s possible and I think I can manage to pull that of.

After that, I would like to install bbPress on another X.com domain. Is it possible to connect all of the WP MU domains users with the users at bbPress? So if someone registers at bbPress can log in at any WP MU domain, and vice versa.

Actually I’m pretty sure that can be done, but I need to know how and if there would be any drawbacks to that solution? Will it remain stable and so on?

Thanks

[tgiokdi]

I was going through my mental checklist of possible problems, and I realized that I’m sharing the user table with two or three subdomains that are using separate installations of wordpress. I’m assuming that your code has no way to see if there’s comments or posts on those other wp-posts tables?

[Snat]

bbPress is no longer used on that website (would edit the link if I could) after I handed the site over to be ran by the community so what you are likely looking at now is the theme I designed for the new forum script they use.

Also I see you have the lates posts showin instead of just the forum.

How did you do that?

If that is the bit I am thinking you are looking at, that is simply just the build in WordPress feature that pulls from a RSS feed.

[Snat]

bbPress is no longer used on that website (would edit the link if I could) after I handed the site over to be ran by the community so what you are likely looking at now is the theme I designed for the new forum script they use.

Also I see you have the lates posts showin instead of just the forum.

How did you do that?

If that is the bit I am thinking you are looking at, that is simply just the build in WordPress feature that pulls from a RSS feed.

[maxfaction]

@tony lies… sorry for sounding so medieval lol, but i installed it on a non-twenty ten theme and it works just fine.

mind you, it took jackie chan style css kungfu to make it look right, but its doable

[laneuio]

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[marius2z]

Hi,

On my website I have in root folder of the domain (www.example.com/) all html static pages. Some time ago I installed on that website the WordPress package, for blogging. As it was allowed in standard setup, WordPress files are located in http://www.example.com/wp/ folder and blog is accessible via http://www.example.com/blog/.

Recently I decided to add forum to the site, using existing WordPress installation. After bbress plugin installation, when I configure the forum, it is by default appended to blog – current WordPress starting folder and addressed as http://www.example.com/blog/forum/, which is messy and confusing.

How to setup bbpress in this environment to have forum root separated and directed to http://www.example.com/forum/ in parallel to blog http://www.example.com/blog/?

Any help would be really appreciated.